Improvement in barrel machinery



2 Sheet`s- Sheet I. M, T. KENNEDY. Improvement in Barrel-Machinery.

Patented Aux im @y u 2 Sheets--Sheet 2. M. T. KENNEDY.v y \m'prove ment in Barrel-Mac 10.130,224.

hnery. Patented Aug. 6,1872.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATTHEIV T. KENNEDY, OF NEW BRIGHTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN lBARREL MACHINERY.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,224, dated August 6, 1872.

Specification describing a new and useful Improvement in Barrel Machinery for crozing and other purposes, invented by MATTHEW T. KENNEDY, of New Brighton, in the county of Beaver and'State of Pennsylvania.

This invention relates to machinery for the manufacture of c00per-work--barrels, kegs, Src.; and consists in a machine for squaring the end of the barrel or keg and cutting it to a given length, beveling the chine and cutting the croze, the construction and arrangement of parts being as hereinafter set forth and `described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l, Sheet 1, represents a top or plan view of the machine, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of Fig. l taken on the line w x. Fig. 3,

A Sheet 2, is a section of Fig. 2 taken on the line y y. Fig. 4, Sheet 2, is a detail, showing an edge view of the beveling and crozing lever. Fig. 5 is a detail, giving a side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The operation of this machine commences after the staves of the keg or barrel have been put together and secured by truss-hoops, which hoops are afterward removed and replaced by ordinary hoops. The barrel or keg trussed in this manner is placed in revolving hollow cylinder, and adj usted centrally therewith and fastened, and the cylinder is revolved by means of a belt, and the machine-levers are applied for squaring, beveling, and crozing, as I will now describe.

A is the bed-plate of the machine. B B are two annular rings standing upon and supported by the bed-plate parallel with each other, and connected together by the rounds C, and also by the fulcrum-plate D and gage-plate E. F is the hollowT cylinder, which is confined between and to the inner circles of the rings B B. This cylinder is revolved by means of a belt placed upon its outer surface between the rings B B. The cylinder may be of any required diameter, with room for variations in the size or diameter of the barrels and kegs. In applying the machine to my own use I construct it for manufacturing kegs of different sizes, and adjust them to the center of the cylinder by means of three or more bars, G. These bars are adjusted so as to bear upon the trusshoops H, as seen in Fig. 3, Sheet 2, and are adjust-ed to suit any particular-sized keg by means of screws I. In fixing a keg to its place two of the bars, after being previously adjusted in the right position, are left fixed in that position. The other bar G (see Fig. 3) is the fastening-bar, and is tightened on the trusshoops by the central screw J. This bar G is loosened and tightened, by means of the screw J, every time a keg is put in or taken from the cylinder. Fastened in this manner the keg revolves around the axial center with the cylinder.

The first operation is to square the ends of the keg, which is done'by means of the levers KK, whose fulcrums are on the plate D. Each of these levers is provided with a cutter, L, which is fastened and adjusted on the lever by the set-screw m, as seen in Fig. 1. These cutters correspond in position with the ends of the staves, and they are brought up till the levers strike the ends of the gage-piece N or the plate E. This operation squares both the ends of the keg at the same time and cuts the keg toa particular length. When this has been done these levers are thrown out to the right and left, so as not to be in the way,

and two other levers, `O O, which have their fulcrums on lugs P I attached to the rings', are brought into play in a similar manner. These levers are provided with two cutters each, one for beveling the chine and the other for cutting the croze. These cutters are connected with the levers by means of frames Q, which slide on the levers between the adjustable stops R R'.

S represents the cutter for beveling the chine, and T the tool for cutting the croze. The former stands about upright or perpendicular to the lever, and is similar in form to a planeiron. The latter is a plate with a serrated edge arranged parallel with the lever. Both cutters are fastened by screws U U. The tool T may be'in the form of a V, if desired. I do not confine myself to the serrated edge eX- clusively. Wis a handle on the sliding frame Q, by means of which the cutters are made to perform each its appointed function. When the frame is pushed from the operator and against the stop R the chine is beveled; and

when the operator pulls the frame toward him up to the stop R the croze is cut. Both of these operations are performed after the levers O O have been brought up to the gage-blocks X X on the lugs Y Y. The kegs are thus cut to a length, the chines are beveled, andthe eroze is cut in each end to a gage, and conse quently the kegs of any particular class or size are made exactly uniform in diameter and shape. When this last operation of beveling and crozing has been completed the levers 0 O are thrown back out of the Way and the keg is removed, and another one is put in its place, as before described. The stops R R are readily moved in either direction, so that the cutters can be adjusted to kegs of any desired size. The cutter for squaring the ends may be varied either by its Width or by raising the fulcrums, or readjusting of the levers to which they are attached.

Machines of this description may be applied in the manufacture of barrels and water-tight casks of every description. It is essentially a labor-saving machine. With it I am enabled to perform what has heretofore been considered the most diflicult operations in the process of making water tight cooper- Work with cheap and unskilled labor. Raw boys taken from the street, after an llours instruction, will run this machine and do the Work with perfect accuracy; in fact, they cannot do it Wrong.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The cylinder F, rings B B, adjusting-bars Gr G, and screws I and J, when the same are combined and arranged substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The levers K K and cutters L L, when the same are arranged to operate simultaneously, substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. The levers O O, sliding frames Q Q, adjustable stops R R', and cutters S and T, when the same are arranged to operate either simultaneously or separately, substantially as and for the purposes described.

MATTHEW T. KENNEDY.

Witnesses:

MILTON ToWNsnNn, JAMEs K. PEIRsoL. 

